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n8 FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA
about in and over the furrows and it looked as if it might be the
best of rotted manure, but turned out to be mill sweepings. A
whole carload of this had been put on the one acre, about twenty
tons. A negro was putting fertilizer in the rows where the pota
toes were to be planted the following day. Eight hundred pounds
of a high-grade chemical fertilizer was being applied. After the
planting was done a furrow was going to be opened between the
rows, and we were told that from thirty to forty tons of barn
yard manure was to be put in these furrows and then covered
by listing and a smoothing implement was to be run over the whole
so that the field would be level when the work was done. The
variety of potatoes being planted was Lookout Mountain.
Conversation brought out the fact that last year the owner had
sold $800 worth of potatoes from the two acres and had at this
time 400 bushels of onions that had come from the same two
acres. He had refused within the week a dollar a bushel for the
onions. These we saw, and they were certainly fine, large, smooth,
well-shaped and well-cured.
The rotation that had been followed on the two acres of pota
toes last year had produced not only the potatoes, but the onions,
and there is now on the ground a crop of cotton that should pro
duce a bale or more per acre.
VIEW OF HILLSIDE PEACH ORCHARD AT SUMMERVILLE, NORTH GEORGIA